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Settling the Nile
The River People
A United Egypt
Early Egyptian Life
Miscellaneous
100
These are located at the source of the Nile and helped keep invaders from conquering Ancient Egypt
What are cataracts
100
This term means having extra food
What is a surplus?
100
Surpluses freed some people to work as these; some made pottery and others wove cloth
Who are artisans?
100
Egyptian society was divided into social groups based on these two characteristics
What are wealth and power?
100
This is another name for a swamp
What is a marsh?
200
This physical feature borders the Nile Rive to the East and West
What is the desert?
200
The Egyptians used this "machine" to take water from the Nile -- it resembles a modern day backho
What is a shadoof?
200
He was the ruler of Upper Egypt who invaded, conquered, and unified upper and lower Egypt
Who is Narmer or Menes
200
This group of Egyptians lived in cities and on large estates along the Nile
Who are the upper class / or nobles, priests, and government officials?
200
This Egyptian form of paper is made from the reed plant
What is papyrus?
300
This sea is located at the mouth of Nile River
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
300
Egyptians dug ditches from the Nile allowed water to flow from the river to the crops. This is called...
What is irrigation?
300
This is the name of the local civilization that historians believe traded with Egypt
What is Mesopotamia?
300
People within this class formed the artisans who produced linen cloth, jewelry, pottery, and metal goods
Who are the Middle Class?
300
This is the name of Ancient Egyptian writing
What is Hieroglyphics?
400
This desert lays west of the Nile River
What is the Sahara Desert?
400
The Egyptians developed this form of mathematics to survey, or measure the land
What is geometry?
400
A line of rulers from one family is called
What is a dynasty?
400
These were used to make homes for a group of people in the lower class
What are mud-bricks
400
The Nile River flows in this direction
What is from South to North?
500
Egyptian civilization was able to grow and prosper due to the Ancient Egyptians keeping what out?
What are invaders?
500
These are the people who kept written records and worked for the rulers, priests, and traders
Who are scribes?
500
Historians group Egypt's Dynasties into three main time periods called
What are kingdoms?
500
Three things women were able to do in Ancient Egypt
What is buy and sell goods, make wills, and obtain divorces
500
This is what Egyptians would do to people when they died
What is mummify them?